oh there you are watching the weekly here in our take with me andrew far. now it has been a traumatic few days for the u.s. city of boston to terror blast struck at its landmark marathon on monday killing three including a child and injuring more than one hundred the attack was followed by an intense manhunt for two suspects through the city's suburbs it eventually saw one of the alleged bombers killed and the other wounded and taken into custody artes and to see looks back at the bitter events. mayhem took place here at an area still cordoned off at a sporting event that attracted tens of thousands of participants and thousands of spectators from all over the world two bombs went off just seconds apart from each other at the finish line of the boston marathon the explosions were so strong. ripping off people leaving three people dead and over

a hundred and seventy five people injured despite all of the money the united states spends on security it was a surveillance camera of a department store that helped pinpoint the two brothers behind the tragedy several memorials like this one have been set up throughout the city of boston to remember the victims of the three people who died including an eight year old boy two young women a twenty nine and twenty three year old over a dozen victims remained in critical condition for several days many of them needing follow up surgeries despite having between the two suspects lived in an apartment on the third floor of this building in cam bridge now they came to the united states the true brothers of chechen origin back in two thousand and two the younger brother joe hart became a naturalized citizen on september eleventh last year the older brother had a green card dreamt of joining the united states olympics boxing team to get a passport all of the people who knew them were shocked to find out that they're the suspects in the bombings but law enforcement officials are saying that they had

indications from the russian government to look into the identity of the older brother to milan they did in fact bring him in for questioning back in two thousand and eleven to try to establish any possible links to extremist groups at this time they released the older brother and of course now following the days after the bombings at the finishing line of the boston marathon law enforcement yet again tried to establish any possible links the brothers might have had with extremist groups after monday's bombings late on thursday afternoon the f.b.i. finally released photos of the two suspects the ended up coming out of their. killing an mit officer hijacking a car releasing the person to whom that car belonged and got in a car chase with police the police officers said that the two brothers were throwing explosive devices out of their car and shooting over a dozen police officers wounded as a result eventually the older brother twenty six year old to milan got out of the car to continue the shootout with the police officers the younger brother stayed in

the car ended up running over his older brother getting away in the car which he eventually abandoned and was able to get away on foot in the meantime police officers captured to marilyn and took him to this hospital in boston suffering multiple injuries this is where he died shortly after one thirty am on friday morning and then presidents a manhunt for joe hart continued for over twenty hours involving thousands and thousands of federal and local law enforcement officers we're currently in watertown just several minutes outside of boston now law enforcement officials have established a perimeter in this area going from door to door trying to locate just whereabouts where they ended up finding him was just a block away from the area they were searching he was hiding out in one of the houses in this area in a dry dog boat a local neighbor in the person living in this area saw

a blood trail and led police to the area where just car was hiding now a helicopter off the officials was also able using heat signature technology to locate joe hart hiding out in this boat even though he was covering himself up now it's important to note. a two hour standoff and shootout between police and the heart continued eventually we know that there was negotiating attempts because the officials were very interested in getting him alive eventually they were able to arrest him take him into custody following his arrest or higher was taken to. same hospital where his brother died also suffering severe injuries he's undergoing medical treatment under heavy security and officials are saying that the legal proceedings against him will begin as soon as he's able to communicate after a week filled with tragedy shock fear and a mass lockdown the city of boston has breathed out a sigh of relief but locals want to see justice and find out the motives behind the

terror rocks that made so many question the illusion of safety they have been living under. r.t.e. massachusetts well u.s. authorities are reportedly checking whether the brothers could have any links to russia's most wanted man models while the parents of the suspected bombers say this is complete nonsense and believe american security services have framed this son's r.c. went to the north caucuses city where the brothers family lives to find out more on their background. that middle and sad and naive and amateur boxer who dreamt of representing his adopted country the united states he claimed to have no american friends but married a local woman katherine and they shared a daughter by contrast his younger brother john had a period well adjusted popular in high school and even won a college scholarship yet sadly they were revealed as the main suspects in the boston marathon bombings their father was the first to step up to claim his two

boys who were set up i'm confident of my children's innocence and i'm not sure what how thought that only god knows no one in the household ever owned any weapons i think my children may have been frightened their mothers to be died shared her biggest suspicion telling r.c. their to her family was under constant after the i surveillance raising the question why her sons were not stopped if they were supposedly planning terrorists and not how nobody talked about the caribbean my son printed on or got involved in the reagan years ago he was told by a b i like fly by he knew that they knew what my doing they knew what action and what. they were going to how could that happen how could they they were conjoined we. never ever heard this is not my two sons are in an absolutely church and that sat

night family first moved from kyrgyzstan to douglas sound a republican rushes north caucasus this is the house where the brothers parents live but now there is no one here that's not a nice family i voicing any contact with the media neighbors here are in deep shock at the news in disbelief that any of this happening to the south and i have family i know the brothers very well from the childhood we used to live in chechnya together i was the neighbor. then we moved here i know they couldn't have carried out the attack and they couldn't have been involved in it they spent most of their lives in the us studied the works that they didn't have any links with the hobbyists and other militants the youngest brother jihad on his plate at the social network and back to mansion at this school number one in my high school and none of those places where he used to study however here are very few people remember that sort of knives brothers. the family came to dug

a stun in september two thousand and one when the boys rolled into a school then they apparently managed to get papers to leave doc a stone so they left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up. in search of a new line for her new wimbish indeed three decades in the us so hard became an american citizen last year but in that time something or someone made the top of my brother's seemingly turned against the nation which gave them asylum and then we stayed spans the most significant part of their lives i do not question or i see reporting from russia stack a stand republic security expert says the boston bombings are the result of america's policy of sheltering chechen separatists driven by cold war stereotypes since the collapse of the soviet union seventy nine hundred ninety one the united states has continued to deal with russian issues based on its old.

and to a large degree of us were originally came out in support of the chechen cause for independence it was the enemy of my enemy is my friend paradigm and the russians continue to be perceived as inherently bad inherently evil that you are going about this error and. the american perspective was that any group of people trying to rescue their independence from russia therefore the most. significant measure of u.s. government will support even to the extent of providing political asylum to one of the church and we who was there at the time under indictment for terrorism in russia. brian levin from the center for the study of hate and extremism at california state university believes that u.s. security measures don't make the country any safer the domestic situation united states is that we are reasonably secure but it's not failsafe and i think it's been

proven two young men had a major american city on lockdown and that speaks volumes we had something similar in southern california with someone who was an ideologically motivated extremist having the whole community shut down so i think that we've gotten a bit complacent but we've also had law enforcement training and put in place reasonable security measures the fact of the matter is terrorism is going to continue in the united states we could have mass casualties and any time in the united states or in europe when some of these folks are successful the plots keep coming. and on the wave of fear and frustration after the deadly bombings in boston the highly controversial cyber security bill finally gets the a k from the u.s. times a representative short live report on how the new law could be used in the war on terror and why its course and cry in america.

on top of the tragedy in boston this week also saw the u.s. hit with one of its worst industrial disasters in decades leaving fifteen dead more than one hundred injured and dozens still missing an explosion at a texas fertilizer plant was so powerful it registered as a small earthquake could be heard more than one hundred kilometers away. well you know. i think you're going to. have you know. the resulting explosion wiped out entire neighborhoods of the small town of west entire blocks of homes is and apartments were mangled by the blast as well as a nearby retirement home and this is in the immediate aftermath noxious fumes hung heavy over the area while far as could be seen burning for miles around with a spokesman for the texas department of public safety described what he witnessed. there are walked through the blast area are searching houses earlier tonight

massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same crowd exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. for days on the flames on yet there are reports that ruptured chemical tanks at the plant and i'm making another leaking talk sins and sparking small fires the area's also being quarantined with locals relocated while rescue is missing people under the dead it's also emerged that there may have been serious safety shortfall was at the plant perhaps encouraged by decades of negligence by inspectors investigative journalist david lindorff says that many other u.s. communities may also be at risk. over and over companies get cited for not having these risk plans in place and they get a small fine and then they don't do anything you know the day they maybe go through the motions of having the risk plan but the reality is. it makes absolutely no

sense to even have a plant like this in a town but all over especially in the west where you've got fertilizer plants oil refineries and so on they're right in the middle of these small towns with houses all around them and schools and nursing homes and the problem is that in the united states the entire regulatory apparatus that oversees these kinds of safety issues has been captured by industry by corporations through their control of the politicians and through their campaign contributions it's really not a lesson for the authorities it's a lesson for the american people that we've allowed our country to be taken over by corporate interests. and i witnessed a kind stories from those injured and the comments are all available at r.t. dot com to go there and you can also find when you log on the videos of the off the mark of the blast and what the danger is not. in a few moments here not say we talked to the world's top whistleblower and wiki

leaks and it's a judean the songs about his meeting with bahrain's main opposition figure. also ahead for you is right he plays her right hand cuffed taken a in front of an angry palestinian crags saying they just wanted to calm the protests this. isn't a lot of problem. because no one thought to drink. when you feel for. what's not enough well there's a law in the local needs you want a community l.n.g. motion will be used. you've just done for a matter of artist i was fired i was fired. all fired.

fired right. well i welcome back human rights groups claim israeli police arrested palestinian teenager as a human shield they are said to have showed the youth off to an angry crowd an attempt to calm the protesters artie's porous layer has more for television. on

friday israeli police paraded this handcuffed palestinian youth during protests that were taking place in the palestinian neighborhood of abu dis which is on the outskirts of east jerusalem human rights groups have accused the army of using the child as a human shield defense for children international palestine has posted a video on you tube that shows helmeted is raided border policeman removing this young palestinian who is identified as mohammad asif interior from the army jeep and forcing him to stand both sides then with handcuffed hands raised above his head human rights groups have released a statement saying that they're outraged that israeli soldiers continue to use palestinian children in this way as human shields with impunity the claim is that the teen was deliberately exposed to danger after he had been taken into custody and the israeli army spokesperson however has said that the move was to calm the violence especially after four hundred palestinian protesters attacked an israeli

border police vehicle for almost four hours earlier this week palestinians mock the annual palestinian prisoners day and this was possible by the palestinian national council back in one nine hundred seventy four as a means of consolidating efforts to support palestinian prisoners who are currently being held in israeli jails on wednesday about three thousand palestinian prisoners refused a food this is in solidarity with the event at the same time activists told fifty metres of the prison fence that also prison which is on the outskirts of ramallah in the west bank where they mounted a palestinian flag and this forced the i.d.f. as well as israeli border police to use why it control measures to disperse the group also in gaza hundreds of people marched from gaza city to the offices of the international committee of the red cross the palestinian authority has saved and urgently to the european union foreign policy chief catherine ashton calling for a prompt intervention to save the life of prisoners in israeli. gels who are

currently conducting a hunger strike the most notable among them is a person or something or other is somehow we has been striking for some three hundred days there are four thousand nine hundred palestinians who are currently held in israeli jails hundred sixty eight of them are under administrative detention without charge or trial. coming up for you shortly is votes are being counted in iraq's first post occupation election we explore the deep divisions running across the country caused by ethnic differences and claims on its vast oil reserves. bahrain's controversial formula one race is set to start as planned on sunday despite protests from the opposition desperately trying to draw attention to human rights abuses in the gulf kingdom tens of thousands of people have been venting their anger saying them on the keys using the event to paper over the crackdown on progress form activists bahrain's protest movement has

been accusing the government of violating freedom of speech values opposition leader in the b. other job is the most prominent figure to stay in prison as many believe he was thrown behind bars just for tweeting against the rulers artie's party boyko reports now on his struggle. not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower julian a son so we came here to london's ecuadorian embassy which the wiki leaks founder has been calling home for some ten months now in order to have a chat about the man at the forefront of bahrain's pro-democracy struggle i began by asking our fans why he was so keen to invite me over job for an interview on his exclusive r.t. show brain has one hundred thousand people. one hundred fifty thousand twitter followers or is predominantly all the population of earth. since you are a sort of number of activists in the green screen. trying

to present to the brain so that right was the most prominent voice for the. speaking to julian assange jab was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have a goal and if you believed. just fuel. you with your. difficulties and you know that the changes that you are fighting for it's been good four hundred years is not an easy thing to change. those changes you have to be willing to pay a price and my price might be your life for to be over a job that price has become is freedom three months after that interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to

a staunch keeping him in prison on the current charges is going to be increasingly difficult for the bahraini government to cartoonish form just because he did not resign to the same standard criticizing you for a t.v. it's hard for the people with that much courage to come. you can't be cowed so i think it's long term prospects accord good amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community wakes up to abuses in bahrain there's little hope that maybe over jobs going to be tasting freedom any time soon. see london's ecuadorian embassy. an activist mohamed el safi says protest is a furious because the rainy government is working on his international image before solving problems at home. this government doesn't do their whole event like the grand prix this is they were and have been all. this systematic torture and they

have from this discrimination against people we are a majority of the people so distributed beyond sanctions that should not be awarded events that the grand prix or any other and they talk about using it to build bridges what's happening now is not building bridges what's happening now is bringing us misery this much to prosperity we are living again in insecurity region just because of the ground. they want to prove that. that they don't make mistakes by doing more mistakes and imprisoning peaceful activists like we are objects which will only get its gratian worse than bahrain. hugo chavez's hand-picked successor is now officially at the head of the world's most oil rich nation having mean or great it is the president of venezuela but the going was far from smooth for nicholas majority with seven protesters killed in

clashes with police this week thousands of supporters of opposition candidate only take a plea less took to the streets around the country demanding a total vote recount police and national guard units responded with tear gas and passed the country's top electoral body did finally agree to a passionate audit but caution that the jury's big tree is irreversible dr william robinson from professor of sociology at the university of california says there may be an ongoing effort to stabilize the situation. this is not a new tactic on the part of washington another type of the owner not a new tactic on the part of the new of the venezuelan opposition and generally the far right in latin america which aligns with washington the idea is you have an all out to stables and this civilization campaign this is simply. another tactic within the campaign there's been diplomatic isolation economic sabotage our military activity the attempted coup d'etat in two thousand and two massive us financing for

the internal opposition including for properties and for the organizations that he represents and so we see this very often when there's all the action which is very close and when the united states wants to get rid of the government in this case the macdougall job is with little government around an election it will launch violence and trying create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the result and this is the at least of this is an incredible the focusing on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive fool because notables it will sound like the united states if the us immediately would recognize the result only look at georgia's proposition to destroy the other centers no moral authority whatsoever to talk about the going to sort of them elections still to come here an arctic one town and i buy officials recognized more detainee's of being on hunger strike the number is up to seventy seven over the past few days still fewer than what the inmates lawyers claim the u.s. state department says it's still committed to closing the prison while the hunger

strike is plight still goes on addressed. the u.s. commits to doubling its non-lethal aid to syrian rebels even even as the opposition calls for military strikes on government positions are coming up in a minute. the u.s. house of representatives has passed the controversial cyber information sharing and protection act designed to fight terrorism in the digital world the legislation also sparked a massive and cry that it's a very jeopardizes people's privacy artes and through blake explains. aides for the white house actually said that we will recommend the president veto this legislation to sever intelligence and for sharing protection act it's come under a lot of criticism by its opponents because they say that it does more than what the authors say it does now the authors of cispa they say that this bill will lead to businesses private companies google facebook and many internet provider these

companies will be encouraged to share information with the federal government that will be used to track down and monitor and curb cyber attacks aimed at the united states computer critics say that it puts too much of americans privacy at risk and that the right safeguards aren't there so in turn people would be separate pricing their privacy for a little bit of security when the bill was introduced back in february i believe one of the areas for the second time representative or one of the authors of the bill he said you know we can't have another nine eleven we can't have another terrorist attack it but if we do we will pass any law that needs to happen sure enough another congressman actually got up and said well look what happened in boston these were bombs sure they weren't digital bombs but the next ones will be digital bombs so we need to come together for the sake of national security and do something and that's exactly why a lot of people have problems with this bill because the people who are touting it the people who are writing it are people that don't really understand the cyber security concerns and there's a lot of concern over who is coming up with this bill who is supporting it saying

that you know boston would be reason enough to pass a cyber security bill is laughable to many people well he's not the u.s. initiative that so with the government under the trying to breach people's privacy . reports on the white house attempts to pry into personal information. terrorists don't have policies they just have sick minds but eat response to their heinous acts governments adopt policies nine eleven was followed not just by two long wars but also by a series of changes in the us laws are sharing in an era where words liberty privacy due process have adopted many many footnotes the patriot act which gave sweeping powers to the government was branded in such a way as to say as a patriot you have to give up certain rights that had been previously guaranteed by the law among many provisions in the act it introduced roving wiretaps where you can be caught. in a phone sweep without a specific warrant the so-called library profession where the state can monitor

your reading habits of any no connection to terrorism national security letters a tool used instead of warrants whereby the f.b.i. can spy on you when the service provider has to share your private information can't tell you about it provisions that require banks to report your financial activities to federal agents well civil rights advocates say the public sentiment the familiar argument i have nothing to hide so we shouldn't concern me over the years it has contributed to the erosion of rights many of the patriot act provisions have been passed and repassed over and over again and they still stand then the new national defense authorization act contains a provision which allows for indefinite detention without due process at the discretion of the president the statute has temporal or geographic limitations and can be used by future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield experts say with laws like this once they're adopted they're very

difficult to reverse as far as u.s. actions overseas part of the nation's response to terror policies like torture or drone strikes which target terrorist suspects but also kill civilians overseas terrorism draws strength from the adoption of extra legal violence as a counter measure but it's. yet unclear how much security people draw from giving up their rights in washington i'm going to shake out. lenders grunk greece almost nine billion euro as an ongoing bailout funds to stave off bankruptcy but at the cost of thousands of public sector jobs to be slashed by the end of the here even as unemployment skyrockets this story just ahead.

i reckon cardiologist dr omar our claims that the war in iraq destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did he see puts to data that the number of breast cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent case of leukemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasions of iraq and which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poisonous substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and consider many places in iraq even some very far from the fighting to be contaminated naturally radiation is not racist and foreign soldiers in iraq are not immune usa today even published research results that found that depleted uranium was indeed in the lungs and other organs of navy vets who filed for health compensation claims yet you know

saddam hussein seemed like a pretty bad guy but there are always ways to get around the confines of a dictatorship but there is no way to escape from radiation it is truly present so where the divisions of iraq good for the iraqis well it doesn't seem to be doing too good for their physical health but that's just my opinion. welcome back over fifty percent of eligible iraqi voters have turned to cast their ballots in the first provincial elections since the u.s. troop withdrawal the vote was marred by violence though with bombs and mortar shells exploding near several polling stations injuring four people the election caps several weeks of turbulent campaigning with over a dozen candidates assassinated out of several fires and running through various government posts super vinces disposing the vote altogether citing

a lack of security the results are expected within several days and need a leg to dorothy's will have to deal with a country facing deep divisions along sectarian and ethnic lines deeper by contesting claims to its vast oil reserves is artes you see catherine off. they call them those who face death gong once guerrilla rebels fighting saddam for an independent kurdistan now an officially sanctioned force in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region the pashman gone and the iraqi troops are supposed to be on the same side after all they're citizens of one country but for more than a year now here in northern iraq the two armies have been pitted against each other their weapons locked and loaded these peshmerga soldiers are on alert twenty four hours a day they're guarding the kurdish front line of the so-called disputed territory now no iraq the soldiers are allowed beyond this point if either army advances if

there's even a single misfire it could spark a new war we have enough forces in place and enough firepower for the peshmerga go to defend against any surprises if for attacks of course we will retaliate at the heart of the disputed territory is cure cuckoo which both baghdad and the kurds say belongs to them. it's like a small version of iraq with sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's this view that because. of course the other reason is kooks oil. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested here kuka sitting on an estimated ten billion barrels of oil and is responsible for a large chunk of iraq's current output that's enough to sustain an independent state should the kurds get their way and annex this disputed territory it's also enough to bankrupt iraq if the oil revenue is lost. that revenue makes up ninety five percent of iraq's annual budget of more than one hundred billion dollars and

there's a lot more money at stake the international energy agency says iraq could export a staggering five trillion dollars worth of oil over the next two decades the kurds and the central government are supposed to share these profits but they haven't been able to sort out how will the. transformed kurdistan into a boom town in the capital of power bill construction projects dot the landscape there are luxury malls and foreign investors are flocking here in the region looks and feels like a different country and for the kurds that may be the ultimate goal but for now this is one iraq divided into two lucy catherine of r t reporting from the disputed territories in iraq. the us ramped up pressure on assad's regime this week announcing it will double its non-lethal aid to syrian rebels to more than one hundred and twenty million dollars they sell off the defense secretary chuck hagel announced two hundred troops will be deployed in neighboring jordan he said the

force including the just tickle specialist and operational plan is is the core of a possible larger contingent to be sent to the area if chemical weapons in syria a threat the call how in and from foreign policy in focus things washington support for the opposition leaves no room for negotiation u.s. is talked about the fact they want to diplomatic resolution but the diplomatic resolute resolution is regime change so by supporting the infiltration of the insurgents from saudi arabia from turkey from from oman from from libya essentially of iraq as was done in afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. by doing that you essentially make it a life or death struggle with the assad regime and so i think by putting these troops here i think what you're doing is that you are short of reinforcing the insurgency and you're taking

a very clear sides in this in the civil war inside syria am i think it moves it further from the diplomatic solution. seventy seven guantanamo detainees are now officially knowledge to be on hunger strike that's an increase of twenty five within the past few days alone however the inmates lawyers believe the real number is still higher with most of the hundred sixty six prisoners taking part in the strike team more people are being forced to bed bringing the total to seventeen five being treated in hospital other than that however it's unclear what the us authorities are planning to do about the hunger strike when asked by r.t. about the state of affairs in guantanamo a state department representative kept to the official line that president obama stays committed to closing the facility but there's little to no real effort to do that and that's what drives prisoners to desperation as former guantanamo detainees was. asked to be you will and i don't think that the will exists certainly if you

still got people one time will eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no practical will to send them these individuals to places where this supposed lack of basic normal life and i don't know with the will is going to come when still problems that were instituted at the time of bush not being cleared at the time of the hunger strike is. an action of desperation they don't know very well in guantanamo but the only way you can get sure rights is by taking extreme measures do you view. the religious abuses are still taking place the prisons are still complaining about those things through lawyers and even one of the most recently written something through his lawyer in the american papers and when he talks about that you people are slowly killing us without establishing any evidence against us at all. now nato has been officially asked the russian government for

advice on how to get itself out of the conflict qualifier quagmire of afghanistan calling on his experience of putting tricked out of the country in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine that's on r.t. dot com also their farm going prison is a luxurious rehabilitation center for jailed al qaeda extremists opens in saudi arabia where exercise and counseling goes hand in hand with a long sentence read more explosive news at our dot com. and battled greece unlock the next installment of its bailout from international lenders this week almost nine billion euros worth of loans but in return it's hard to agree to cut four thousand public sector jobs by the end of the year the massive cash injection keeps greece's struggling economy on life support until the next tranche of the ongoing bailout expected next month as tom barton reports now the money might still be coming in but the country's industrial backbone is crumbling.

cobwebs outside rain falls on the still and silent it's attackers plastic piping from tree first of all the grease inside the machines have been only used since banks stopped investing and the owner of your boss puts attackers fled in two thousand and ten one of his workers also be or course did meet the just wants up to that he and ninety five other staff seven million euro in wages. after a short talk i had to force myself to leave so i wouldn't hurt him workers see that they are being made to bear the cost of greece's economic woes this is the story and of course the. it is. very unequal across the industrial northern greece the story is repeated this fertilizer factory used to be a center of northern greek industry nowadays though by economics fair all foul it's

a ghost factory and the only fertilizer coming in here is imported from elsewhere in europe it produced specialist fertilizers until one day the workers were called together and told by the owners that the know how for their products had been sold off and that operations would be stopped they are all. it's criminal that a profitable industry has shut down an industry that produced high quality material only the human workers now see the cruel irony that since the factories closing fertilizer prices have tripled but it's a wider fear that one skilled workforce is a laid off it's all too hard to bring them back. in the path of those who have this the unemployment rate here is thirty percent or by the years and it could be over thirty eight with no fish and policy the situation is out of control yes he said he the mother got the workers across northern greece are desperate desperate to keep their jobs to get back into jobs and to be paid for their work it doesn't help ease

their concerns when they're in positions like your boss has been unemployed for three years and he's off skiing in switzerland to martin r.t. . the exclusive interview is next here on r.t. . if. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia with that very profit and that's what i want is a very high return on investment. you'll know i'll be here i said but i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups are a part of me that is and you know about a manager is a change their name a strategy a british and just feel the same murderous. high ranking suspects give no comment very upset on that mr president soon. to president clinton.

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the book about international and world in the very heart of moscow. says. r t is sitting down with russia's former finance minister alexei kudrin thank you very much for joining us today now my first question is the peak of the crisis in cyprus seems to be over and it certainly underscored a huge number of problems in the european union from the instability in the euro zone to the sort of tough approach that we've seen the regulators take when it comes to trying to solve financial crisis there did you for you this crisis was it unexpected. and you should missed it was the severity of the crisis that was

unexpected i mean i had assumed the banks may have trouble getting capitalized but as you know these problems started once the greek debt was written off and cypriot banks suffered more from that than anyone else i had assumed that in such an event the european union should be expected to assist cyprus with everything it could do in order to mitigate the fallout from writing down the greek debt after all the write down was a collective decision taken by the e.u. but it did come as something of a surprise when the e.u. declined to bail out cyprus to the extent that it had earlier rescued greece i believe this course of action was not entirely consistent and that is why i said that the european union was fully responsible for the state of the cypriot banking system considering that cyprus is part of the union and of the eurozone sickles i've also argued that there might be a spillover effect from cyprus to the banking systems of e.u. neighbor states i don't believe the crisis is over but far from that it's presently at its peak and we don't know where it will eventually get us its outcome may prove

to be better than expected or it could be worse so i guess has not yet allowed depositors' to withdraw their money from cypriot banks especially from the biggest ones such as the bank of cyprus so far there is no way of telling what those depositors and investors will do will they all decide to pull out their money and walk or will some of them choose to stay so the outcome is so far on clear so if it happens to be worse than everyone is expecting it will drop. magically the situation for europe southern economies you know their words we cannot be certain that the crisis will not spill over onto other countries but now there's a debate going on in terms of which countries are going to be next to be hit luxembourg spain italy what's your projection was that. it is difficult for me to say slovenia maybe having it hardest at the moment but at least a crisis there would be relatively easy to contain.